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Pursuant to House Rule XI, clause 3(b)(8)(A), and Committee Rules 17A(b)(l)(A) and
17 A(c)(1), the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Committee on Ethics have jointly decided
to extend the matter regarding Representative Paul Broun, which was transmitted to the
Committee by the Office of Congressional Ethics on July 31, 2014.

On September 11 , 2014, the Committee transmitted the attached Report to the House regarding the arrest of Representative Gwen Moore during a protest in West Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on September 4, 2014.

Pursuant to House Rule XI, clause 3(b)(8)(A), and Committee Rules 17 A(b)(l)(A), and
17 A(c)(1), the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Committee on Ethics have jointly decided
to extend the matter regarding Representative Tom Petri, which was transmitted to the
Committee by the Office of Congressional Ethics on July 2, 2014.

Pursuant to House Rule XI, clause 3(b)(8)(A), and Committee Rules 17 A(b)(l)(A), 17A(c)(l), and 17AU), the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Committee on Ethics have jointly decided to extend the matter regarding Representative Ed Whitfield, which was transmitted to the Committee by the Office of Congressional Ethics on June 10, 2014.

Pursuant to House Rule XI, clause 3(b)(8)(A), and Committee Rules 17 A(b)(1)(A), 17 A( c )(1), and 17 AU), the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Committee on Ethics have jointly decided to extend the matter regarding Representative Bobby L. Rush, which was transmitted to the Committee by the Office of Congressional Ethics on June 10, 2014.

Earlier this year, the Committee adopted several changes to its guidance regarding financial disclosure reporting. Among them was a revision to no longer require limited reporting of officially connected, privately sponsored travel on annual financial disclosure reports, provided that a much more detailed, publicly available report of the trip had already been filed. Some recent press reports regarding this change have created confusion in the House community by suggesting that Members and House staff no longer have to make any disclosure of privately sponsored travel, that the public would no longer have access to any information about privately sponsored travel, and that the rules governing what types of privately sponsored travel are acceptable have been changed. None of that is correct.

In accordance with House Rule XI, clause 3, H. Res. 451, and Committee Rules 1 O(a)(2)
and 18(e)(2), the Committee on Ethics (Committee) unanimously voted on May 8, 2014, to
establish an Investigative Subcommittee. Pursuant to the Committee's action, the Investigative
Subcommittee shall have jurisdiction to determine whether Representative Michael Grimm
violated the Code of Official Conduct or any law, rule, regulation, or other applicable standard of
conduct in the performance of his duties or the discharge of his responsibilities, with respect to
allegations forming the basis for criminal charges of obstructing the tax law, conspiracy to
defraud the United States, aiding and abetting tax evasion, health care fraud, wire fraud, mail
fraud, unlawful employment of aliens, obstruction of an official proceeding, and perjury, as filed
against him in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York on April 25,
2014.